RIFLE, Colo.—Forest officials in western Colorado say this year’s wildfire season is lingering longer than usual.

White River National Forest spokesman Bill Kight says a second significant area wildfire in less than two weeks is a reminder that the danger isn’t over.

Kight and Bureau of Land Management spokesman David Boyd say they can’t remember the last time the local wildfire danger has lingered so late into the year.

A roughly 1,000-acre wildfire north of Rifle was 60 percent contained Friday. Strong winds pushed it into the forest on the west side of the Grand Hogback. Fire officials say it was human caused but haven’t released details.

To the east, the 250-acre Middle Elk Fire is still smoldering in the Flat Tops. It was started Sept. 20 by an unattended campfire.

On Monday, when the first cross-country eclipse in 99 years swoops across America, believers of all faiths will have their first chance in decades to put their particular religion’s eclipse traditions into practice.

A White House advisory council on infrastructure Thursday became the latest casualty of the pique of business leaders over President Donald Trump’s response to the hate-fueled violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in nearly a century comes at an especially inopportune time for many employers. From 10:15 a.m. Pacific until just before 3 p.m. Eastern time — some of the busiest hours of the workweek — the moon’s shadow will hit land in Newport, Ore. and leave the continent near Charleston, S.C.